Due to Thanksgiving travel, we had limited time with the KIA Optima Hybrid. Oddly enough, that doesn’t really impact a review. Though this will not be a nuanced and detailed account, it’s easy to sum up the Optima Hybrid after only a couple of drives along an empty PCH and a few quick freeway interchanges, [...]
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by Mark Ewing on February 3, 2011 · 0 comments
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“It leaked oil. I got down on my hands and knees to smell it. It was like perfume.” – Soichiro Honda “Meanwhile, startling as it is that all visible evidence of invention should have been refined out of this instrument and that there should be delivered to us an object as natural as a pebble [...]
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by Mark Ewing on July 28, 2010 · 3 comments
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Hyundai is getting a lot of soft-touch press these days, working this new love affair to best advantage, crowing a bit about Hyundai’s nascent role as leader and innovator. After spending a week with a loaded Sonata, and visiting a couple of dealers to look over the stock on the ground, I’d say Hyundai has [...]
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